CV Lattes
Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Botucatu. Faculdade de Medicina (FMB) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Graduate at Medicina from Universidade Federal de Goiás (1991) and master's at Neurologia from Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto da Universidade de São Paulo-USP (2003). Has experience in Medicine, focusing on Neurology, acting on the following subjects: multiple sclerosis, neuromielite optica and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is inflammatory diseases, autoimmune disorder with predilection for optic nerve and spinal cord mediated by antibodies to aquaporin 4 (AQP4), a protein of the water channels with high expression in the CNS. The anti- aquaporin 4 (NMO-IgG) was discovered in 2004 and in addition to being diagnostic for the spectrum of NMO is related to pathogenesis of disease.…
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